The gala of The Best of FIFA left several surprises and other difficult decisions to argue. In the first place, the award for best women’s football coach, which was won by Emma Hayes, from Chelsea, who was thrashed in the Champions League final (4-0) against Lluís Cortés’ Barça, who achieved the treble. Subsequently, despite the fact that Alexia won The Best, no Barça player, not even Mollet’s, appeared in the ideal eleven.
Balaguer’s own coach claimed the role of his former players. “It cannot be understood that there is no Barça player in the best eleven last season,” Cortés said in statements to TV3’s Onze.
Lluís Cortés, with the Women’s Champions League won with Barça
Regarding the election for which he was nominated, the Catalan coach, currently Ukraine’s coach, was elegant. “For a coach, individual prizes don’t have that much value either. What really counts are all the good times we won last year and the cups we took home. That gives value to our work.” Cortés sentenced: “I am not a coach to win individual titles, but to improve and compete with a team.”